The map is the 4.0 version of the International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean (IBCAO), an initiative that was created in 1997 in Saint Petersburg (Russia) in order to map the depths of the ...

The Arctic Ocean, located in the Northern Hemisphere, is the smallest ocean of the world having an area of nearly 14,056,000 square kilometres. It is about eight per cent of the size of the ...

The map is now almost 20 per cent complete, compared to the previous map published in 2012, which depicted about seven per cent of the Arctic Ocean floor. (Submitted by Martin Jakobsson) Social ...

Arctic Ocean was covered by kilometre-thick ice shelf and filled entirely with freshwater, ‘surprising’ new evidence reveals. Extensive glaciation and lower sea levels cut off Arctic from ...

China’s Coast Guard claimed it entered waters of the Arctic Ocean for the first time as part of a joint patrol with Russia – in the latest sign of enhanced coordination between the two in a ...

The Arctic Ocean was covered by up to 900 m thick shelf ice and was filled entirely with freshwater at least twice in the last 150,000 years. This surprising finding is the result of long-term ...

The Greenland and Barents seas contained 95 percent of the Arctic’s plastic, the research found (the ship sampled 42 sites across the Arctic Ocean). The Barents Sea happens to be a major fishery ...

The Arctic Ocean, located in the Northern Hemisphere, is the smallest ocean of the world having an area of nearly 14,056,000 square kilometres.